Chicago teachers union boss takes race and class baiting to new heights
Of course, union boss Karen Lewis is vehemently opposed to charter schools because school choice means the union gravy train would stop.
By the way, you know that stereotype about the fat union boss? Yeah…
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Dartmouth Chicago Smackdown
Karen Lewis ’74, the head of the Chicago teachers union, was at her class- and race-baiting best the other day in a speech in which she took aim at venture capitalist and candidate for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner ’78. The Chicago Tribune reports:
Lewis, speaking to the City Club of Chicago, did not directly criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But she went after his kitchen cabinet of educational advisers as wealthy “elites” from the venture capital and corporate world and questioned what “rich white people” know about what’s in the best educational interests for minority children.
“Members of the status quo, the people who are running the schools and advising the mayor on how best to run our district, know what good education looks like because they have secured it for their own children in well-resourced public and private institutions,” Lewis said.
“When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the effect that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level.”
Moreover, Lewis asked, “And when did all these venture capitalists become so interested in the lives of minority students in the first place? There’s something about these folks who love the kids but hate their parents. There’s something about these folks who use little black and brown children as stage props at one press conference while announcing they want to fire, layoff or lock up their parents at another press conference.”
Several of Emanuel’s unofficial education advisers come from the world of high finance, including wealthy money manager Bruce Rauner, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. Rauner and others have sought more charter schools and the GOP candidate has been an outspoken critic of the teachers’ union.
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That’s class BAITING. ‘bating will get you kicked out of class.
Thank you, Karen. You told us who you are afraid of.
Karen, you definitely ‘fill’ the position of a loud, obnoxious union boss who won’t debate the issues. Instead you bark out jihadist diatribes of holy union war against the common weal infidels.
If your union is so good why do you need to be standing in your bully pulpit whining about others more capable than you and your union?
Here’s a conversation KL needs to have with her union cronies about her racism towards white people:
“When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the effect that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level.”
BTW: Karen, you look like an ‘overstuffed’ rich white person with an angry mug.
If Bruce Rauner leans libertarian I will vote for him.
I will never vote for Mark Kirk as Senator. We have enough Dems in IL.
Like Eric Holder calling for a national conversation about race, the last thing she actually wants is an honest discussion about poverty, race, and inequality.
Precisely what is it the rich white people are doing that prevents the teachers actually in the classrooms from offering a good quality education?
By the way, here in Detroit the school system, both in terms of governance and administration, has been out of the hands of white people for decades. It is probably the worst school system in the country. The local papers last week ran the ACT average scores for the various school systems in the area. The state average is, I think 21.4. A rough estimate of Detroit’s is about 14, i.e. not a lot more than you’d get for showing up and filling in your name.
And no, I’m not the racist, because I don’t think this is necessary or that improvement has to wait until all inequities are smoothed over and all injustice remedied.
Doesn’t the Union run the Chicago school system not? Aren’t all the teachers union members? They haven’t done to well educating their students have they? Now is a good time to eliminated the failed unions, many of the failed teachers and replace them with competent people.